La Loge

Struck by the “immensity of Paris” compared to Turin, Milan, and Florence, De Amicis concluded, “Yesterday we were rowing on a small lake, today we are sailing on the ocean.” In his eyes, Paris provided “an...

~~After playing a role in visualizing the French Revolution, color was subject to its own upheaval in the nineteenth century, first in materials, then in making. By the time of the Industrial Revolution, chemistry had replaced alchemy. Building on the classification of the elements and using modern experimental scientific methods,...

Even a casual glance at successive editions of guide books to Paris, from their beginnings in the 1840s to the end of the “Belle Epoque,” reveals the striking truth: leisure and entertainment took an ever-increasing place in the life of Paris...